Power Glory by Greene Graham, Signed (2 results)

First edition of this partial translation. Printed wrappers, stapled. Photographic portrait of Greene, six photographic illustrations, and two pen and ink drawings. Inscribed to Greene by the translator, 'Ambrose Bierce somewhere defined a saint "a dead sinner revised and edited" - you did the revising - this is the editing. God help us both, and may you forgive me. To Graham Greene, with apologies. Bordeaux 2d July 1951. Robert Escarpit'. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled, else a very nice copy. An English primer utilising extracts from Greene's novel, with numerous notes, and examination questions of various kinds: 'How does Greene explain the lieutenant's political attitude? Does the explanation seem satisfactory to you? 'Why does an animal never know despair?'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene. William Heinemann, London. 1940 first UK edition first printing. Octavo, cloth, spine lettered in purple, Heinemann windmill stamped in purple to lower right corner of rear board; top minld toning and soiling, top right corner of front board bumped and wrinkled. Cream colored endpapers, all edges trimmed; moderate toning to endpapers and half-title, internally generally clean but with some intermittent foxing. In original printed purple dust jacket; some minor chipping, professional restorations on verso, particularly along spine panel joints. Inscribed and signed "For Clive Hirschhorn - Graham Greene". Inscribed and signed on title page by the author to noted theater critic and collector of modern first editions, Clive Hirschhorn. A very good first edition copy of this title, one of the 3500 of this first edition printed. Housed in burgundy cloth clampshell with red leather labels stamped in gilt to front board and spine. One of the best novels of the 20th century, and often regarded as Greene's masterpiece. Almost never found with original dust jacket, let alone signed with this provenance. Signed by Author(s).